Welcome to the experience of a lifetime!

We are super excited that you are interested in traveling with us to serve on an ADRA Connections (CNX) Trip! This is going to be an amazing experience and we will greatly improve the lives of the community where we will be working. In El Salvador, many poor communities live and survive off the produce of their rural land. We will spend the week working to improve the grounds and facilities of the community. Be prepared to dig in gardens, hammer nails and assist in all sorts of construction-related projects.

Location: Opico, La Libertad – rural community northwest of the capital

Dates: May 16 – 26, 2019

Our Project: Building microtunnels

Local Excursion: Volcano hiking, canopy tour and beach day

Project Impact – How will this project make a difference? 

Many young people from rural areas in central El Salvador cannot find work and are emigrating to the cities and often to other countries, the USA in particular. This has the dual effect of leaving behind families with even less income and disrupting familial bonds that often span generations.

ADRA El Salvador has designed a project that teaches young people how to make money through agriculture. Perhaps not going out and plowing acres of fields as their parents may have, but rather using smaller greenhouses to strategically cycle though crops with a higher value. Each chosen beneficiary will receive a greenhouse, seeds and training to jump start their microeconomic project.

Our job is to spend a week or two in the community and build or repair the greenhouse structures and give 500 plants to each selected new, young farmer. We will be helping provide a primary source of income by selling the produce in local markets and incentivize them to stay closer to their families and heritage if that is their desire. The young farmers will receive social enterprise training on how to make money off the greenhouses project.

ADRA CNX Will Provide:

• Airport pick-up/drop-off (SAL—Monseñor Óscar Arnulfo Romero International Airport in Sal Salvador)
• All El Salvador CNX trip transportation
• Lodging near project site (includes showers and bathrooms)
• Three meals/day
• Travel Insurance
• ADRA CNX branded gear
• Local Excursion

Airfare and Fees  You will have to coordinate your own airfare as a group. The cost of the airfare will not be sent to ADRA as you will give that directly to the airline. The cost of this trip does NOT include any visa fees, passport application fees, vaccinations, luggage fees, or transportation to/from airport in the USA. Basically, once you get to Manaus on July 13, we’ll take care of everything else.